Equinix VA1
Equinix · Vancouver
- IT live
- 8 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.0 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $68
- White space
- 67k ft²
Inventory
87% occupiedPower
8 MWlive
1.0 MW to lease · 7.0 MW in use
White space
67k ft²total
8,667 ft² free · 58k ft² occupied
6,194 m² · 805 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 2.4 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$68/kW·mo
6.6¢ industrial · 9.4¢ after PUE 1.42
- Per MW·year
- $821k
- This site · 8 MW
- $6.6M/yr
- 5 kW rack
- $342/mo
2.1× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $3.4M/yr less.
BC Hydro Burnaby · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2010
- Renewable match
- 96%
- Rack density
- 5 kW
- PUE
- 1.421.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- BC Hydro. Dual feeds plus on-site diesel. Hydro-heavy British Columbia grid.
Cooling
Plant
Air / CRAH
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
5 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 64k m³/yr at 8 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Equinix 2025 Sustainability Report.
IDEC / chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Campus Cooling as a Service is available for high-density cabinets on request.
Network carriers
6On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
6Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Burnaby, BC
49.249°, -122.981° · North America
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
VA1 is an Equinix IBX in the Vancouver metro. Carrier-neutral IBX with Equinix Fabric, Internet Exchange, and cloud on-ramps. Fleet-average PUE was 1.37 in 2025.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.